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Other changes starting with this tour was the change of backing group. The Imperial Quartet was replaced by Elvis' hero's - J.D. Sumner - group, The Stamps Quartet. This was thought to be because the Colonel refused to give The Imperials a pay rise. There were some rare songs played on this tour, and Elvis seemed to be loving the new settings after being in Vegas & Tahoe for nearly 3 months of the past year. Songs like Hawaiian Wedding Song, Are You Lonesome Tonight?, One Night, It's Now Or Never, The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face & the highlight of the tour; Bridge Over Troubled Water. At the show in Louisville a special guest was in the audience of an Elvis show for only the second time (he also saw Elvis in Louisville in 1956) was Elvis' grandfather Jessie Presley. |
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The only tour for Elvis in 1971, after two Las Vegas seasons and his debut Lake Tahoe engagement, had him play fourteen shows in twelve days. This tour was the first time that capes became in full use. He had started wearing capes during the last few days of the previous Las Vegas engagement in September, but, starting with this tour, the capes became regulars on the jumpsuits.
1970